Posted 30 May 2012

‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 30 May 2012

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The much asked for Gravity Rush demo reaches European shores today. With the ability to control gravity, you play as Kat, lost in a strange city with no memory of her past; you must now save the world from an incoming gravity storm. Experience a sample of the pretty visuals and soothing soundtrack in Gravity Rush.

14 August 1951: the attack on North America has just begun. Resist the brutal Chimeran invasion as Tom Riley, a hardened New York firefighter, as he strikes out alone to find his missing wife and child in Resistance: Burning Skies (Released Friday, 1st June for UK/IE), an all-new first person shooter for PlayStation Vita.

Now! Fight your rival!

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, previously only available as an upgrade pack, is now available to download from PlayStation Store as a complete game. If you missed Arcade Edition before, this update brings in 4 new characters Yun, Yang, Evil Ryu and Oni and a whole host of gameplay refinements.

New DLC includes a Starhawk pack for LittleBigPlanet 2, featuring new costumes from the recent game. Batman: Arkham City has an all new expansion revolving around our favourite Clown Prince of Crime’s special lady, Harley Quinn! She’s doin’ it for Mr.J! A list of this week’s DLC follows below as you’d expect.

Be sure to check out Andy’s blog post that went up earlier today for new offers.

PlayStation Network New Content

Content may be added or removed, or move dates – please stay tuned to your weekly Store Update for the most up to date listings. Listed savings are approximate, based on SRP excluding Special Offer pricing and should be considered as a guide only.

PS Plus

Mad Riders (PS3) including DLC

Price: £7.99,€9.99,AU$15.95

PS3 Games

Mad Riders (Trial also available)Mad Riders is an adrenaline-fueled off-road arcade racing game, that will let you perform amazing aerial stunts and race on over 45 stunning tracks from all over the world, at breathtaking speeds.

Price: £7.99,€9.99,AU$15.95PEGI: 3Availability: AllFile Size: 1285MB

Men In Black: Alien CrisisIt’s your turn to suit up as the newest MIB recruit to eliminate the scum of the universe. Arm yourself with a full arsenal of iconic MIB weapons and head into the field with the mission to investigate and stop an evil alien plot to snatch up an ancient artifact that is the key to seizing control of the universe.

SBK GenerationsThe official game of the FIM Superbike World Championship is back with the most complete motorcycling simulation ever created. Live through the last four seasons of the SBK world championships and become world champion!

Price: €29.99,AU$39.95PEGI: 3Availability: Not available in BU,CR,IS,KU,LU,QT,SA,SL,TK,UK,GB

PSVita Demos (Free)

Gravity RushPEGI: 12Availability: AllFile Size: 492MB

PS2

Conflict: VietnamCompatible with PlayStation 3.Trapped behind enemy lines, in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle, the Viet Cong lie in wait… everywhere. You must use your squad’s skills, determination and immense firepower to outsmart the enemy and battle your way to freedom.

Prices: £5.49,€6.99,AU$11.45PEGI: 16Availability: AllFile Size:2569MB

Tom Clancy’s Ghost ReconCompatible with PlayStation 3.When new leaders in Russia attempt to rebuild the Iron Curtain, war escalates, casualties mount, prisoners are taken, and the Ghosts are sent in. Take a highly skilled Ghost team through a series of missions that range from demolitions to search-and-rescue and all-out firefights for survival.

PSP

Blazing Souls AccelateCompatible with PSP (PlayStation Portable) and PlayStation Vita.Zelos, who makes his living as an independent contractor, obtains a crystal infused with magical energy called a “Core Elemental” after a freak accident. Almost as soon as it fell into his hands, Zelos was besieged by a number of mysterious beings intent on taking the power of the elemental for their own.

Jawad, not really sure where to ask this so I figure I’ll give it a shot here. I recently bought Resident Evil 4 HD from the store, completed it and such, but the extra modes Mercenaries and Assignment Ada haven’t unlocked despite other game-completion bonuses unlocking just fine. Is it something to do with the version uploaded or something? Thanks!

Salaam Jawad, is it possible if you can get Alien Trilogy that was a PS1 classic in to the store? and also would you be able to get some God Of War avatars in to the store aswel? Thank you for your time.

This is what Farsight Studios’ Pinball Arcade Support wrote me about The Pinball Arcade for PS3/PSVita on May 24th:“It is currently in submission to Sony. They will release when it will be available when it passes. Unfortunately, we have no control over that process or public reveal date ”So how much longer Sony?

And weren’t we promised a monthly episode of The Walking Dead. It’s been over a month now!

I think I’ll have Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition. My disc of Super SFIV is broken AGAIN and I never got around to buying the stupidly overpriced Arcade addon so this looks like a better value way to get that game again. 18GB seems a bit excessive for a beat ’em up but with 640GB hard drive I don’t care and I’m in no rush for downloading. I’m still greatly enjoying Doctor Who from last week. Most I’ve enjoyed a new game so far this year despite one or two minor issues.

I Am Alive was supposed to be on sale over the past weekend according to the playstationeu twitter and as advertised on the store but the price never changed! Any chance this is going to be offered again?

Still not getting the Disgaea 4 DLCs? Did some reading on the NIS forums, seems that there was a similar incident whit the Netherlands PSN store, and then it was that scee in their infinite wisdom (read that as stupidity) demands support documents in native language of stores, What those suport documents are for, not us users, as we do not see them… scee quit this stupidity, most of Europe know English..Next point, when will the following PSP games be avavible on the Store? The ones whit (VITA) is not vita compatible.Astonishia Story (Vita)Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (Vita)Final Fantasy Crisis CoreGhost in the Shell: Stand alone ComplexInvizimalsKingdom Hearts Birth by SleapPoPoLoCroisTales of EterniaTales of the World Radiant MythologyThrillvilleValkyria Chronicles 2 (Vita)Valkyrie Profile LennethThird:Cross Region Gifting. WHEN?

Sony and retailers are in a cartel.Retailer’s obligation is prominent shelf space for boxed copies of sony goods, while sony’s side of the deal is to price match physical media to mitigate the torrent of sales they’d get if the were priced to reflect the 90% drop in production costs digital content allows for.

So this is the last store update of the month and there is no “The Walking Dead: Episode 2”Now not only am I disappointed by not getting a LittleBigPlanet Vita Beta code (which I know was chance but it still made me sad), I have something I’ve actually paid for not being available to me when it should be.I’m not one to complain but this is pretty annoying.At least I have the Batman: Arkham City Harley’s Revenge DLC to download which i’ve been looking forward too & it has a nice price too.

With the rumoured big changes to ps plus coming at e3 I’m not expecting to hear anything on June’s plus. btw if you do make changes and we don’t like it I certainly hope you have a plan for those of us now to leave the subscription and keep our content. not to be prematurely pessamisstic but I don’t like the idea of paying for a different service to keep content from this service. the only changes that need to be made is splitting UK away from Europe so we can be more competitive with price and content.

hello my friend please can you tell me when are you going to bring assassin’s creed III avatars like us got yesterday that’s one question and the other thing can you put up the ps plus update us is going to get ti today for june i mean ok thanx dude please response to these questions is really important for me

Could you ask Ghostlight if they’re willing to do a promotion on Persona 3 portable and Trails in the Sky for PSP? I’ve got both of them on UMD, but as I was still playing them when the Vita came out, I haven’t finished them yet. I would love to finish them on Vita though, but rebuying them again at such a high price (30 to 40 euro’s a piece!) is a bit to much for me… (Shame we didn’t get that promotion Japan got where you could download some of the PSP games you had on UMD)

Oh, do you have any news on Walking Dead 2? Can’t wait to play that one.

Just the free motorstorm rc dlc again for me with gravity rush demo too. Where is the Resistance BS demo? Will we ever get it? We never got the AR app. With the bad reviews, high price and now even no demo I’ve been put right off the game.Also last week you had a good sale by reducing some Vita titles like Everybody’s golf but didn’t tell is, now this week you say there is a sale starting today but can’t tell us what is on offer? Ridiculous, no wonder things aren’t going well for Vita and Sony.

conflict vietnam* but also is desert storms compatible :) barely get anytime to sit at home on ps3, always on the move with the vita, and the conflict series are some of my best games, would be awesome if i could play them again on vita.

please get us spyro i sure everybody is getting tierd of asking for it i know your not in charge but if you show the people who are how many comments this got iam sure they would do somthing about it surley ?

..all this consumer hate they have to take every week, knowing full well there is little they can do about the complaints, while his fatcat corporate boss is out playing golf and sleeping with pretty 18yrd hookers lol :D

The US store update actually advertised Resistance:BS for $39.99 at first, but after about an hour, they reduced the price to $35.99 and edited their post without even offering an explanation. Moreover, the people who bought it immediately, now have to call up Sony to get a refund. I’m not interested in the Resistance game after reading the bad reviews and playing the US demo, so it doesn’t concern me but I would not recommend anyone to buy it yet.

What is going on with The Pinball Arcade? We’re almost two months behind the states. Would it help if we got out and pushed? For goodness sake get it together guys. I’m REALLY hoping you pull some treats out of the bag for Vita at E3…

@79: why would i buy 2nd hand and pay for online-pass… i’m just thinking of opening a US PSN account and start from scratch for vita… my loss of EU PSN will be just 3 games and lots of minis(came with 2 years of PSN+) but i think i will get more from there(early updates, more demos, more apps, cheaper prices)

Hi,Like many others, I’m feeling a bit confused by this Resistance: Burning Skies release on several fronts.

Firstly, there’s no demo on the EU store, which is disappointing.

Secondly, with regards to the pricing, I find the game’s price to be quite surprising. From my understanding the RRP in the US is $40, which has previously translated to the EU as $1=€1=£0.79, or there abouts. From this, I would have assumed that would be $40=€40=£35 with regards to the RRP.

In addition to this, the US release yesterday was marred by a rather public error with pricing, which initially did not respect the previously held 10% discount from RRP on PSN store releases of larger, retail titles. This error is also visible here.

So, to sum up, it would have been nice to see a demo, and after my calculations, I don’t feel that you have respected your market through this pricing and not honouring your previous commitment to a 10% discount for titles such as Resistance Burning Skies.

I see that the PS2 version of Ghost Recon has been released as a PS2 classic today, but I would like to know if it also includes the Desert Siege campaign, which was included with the original PS2 game on the disc release in 2002.

May be a stupid question, but is there a non-3D mode on that Ridge Racer 7 game? I dont have a 3D TV at the moment, but i would like to buy and play the game on “normal” mode. great if anyone can shed some light on this :D

Lol at the price of Resistance burning skies. I was hoping that it got decent scores overall, instead the last time I’ve checked its got 60 on Metacritic. Also, it being priced at £39.99 is a joke, It should have been £29.99 and there being no demo is stupid. I’ll put this game on the back burner or forget about it.

WOAH £40 for a game thats been judged as mediocre to poor all across the board, i’m not one who relies on gaming journalism because its usually down to who has the most money but thats fairly bad in any respect. Videogames have been a lifelong hobby/activity for me and its been horrible to see the whole industry nosedive into bland uninteresting pool of mediocrity and DLC. It seems to be down to who can create the most generic brown and bloom fps or who can rely on the biggest franchise name and deliver serving after serving of nothingness and rely purely on the name to sell it (Diablo 3, anything by EA or Bioware, Resident Evil). None of this will change though because people who know no better will just lap it all up without seeing that these publishers and a lot of developers are just milking you for every penny without caring about the quality of the product they are giving you

So are we not allowed to have The Walking Dead Episode 2..? It was supposed to be released monthly yet it is not…I bought the season ticket too expecting them to release the episodes monthly as promised. Not too happy right now.

1) Do you know if there will be any upcoming sales on stuff like Oddworld, etc? Could you ‘pressure’ Capcom into reducing Resi 4 to the £7.99 price point in a future sale like EA did with Crysis? I was ready to buy it, but when I saw they reduced it by an epic £2 I didn’t bother. The CVX bundle for £16.99 was tempting but apparently RE4 is the only decent one.

2) Will there be a Resistance Burning Skies demo in the future? Had it on preorder, got a bit frightened by the reviews and cancelled it. If the demo impresses me, I’ll get it for sure.

3) Any word on how Tombi is coming along? I’ve heard it will be on the US Store in the ‘summer’, will it be on the UK store in the forseeable future as a PAL release or as an import? While we are on this will Ape Escape ever see the light of day? I realise PSP could not run it due to the lack of a second stick, but with Vita the door is now open for that to happen!

Seriously? What the hell are you guys smoking?? 40 pounds for Men In Black in UK, or AU$100? For those who don’t follow the outrageous pricing from Sony & Microsoft, 40 pounds would be close to AU$60. This is for the same PAL version of the game.

This is EXACTLY why the government have just launched an inquiry into software (and hardware) pricing in Australia. I’m going to submit this as a sample of gouging as it’s just plain offensive.

With regards to Walking Dead Episode 2, to be fair it was mentioned upon release to expect Episode 2, either the last week of May or the first week in June! It was listed as a release within the US store yesterday but taken down, so I expect it will release next week!

Andy has already stated that nothing can be mentioned about the SALE items due to an Embargo, so stop being pig-headed peeps! Google Embargo if you don’t understand ;)

With regards to Avatars…..Whinging & moaning about them…..REALLY?? It’s a picture!

Just the free vehicle for Motorstorm RC for me, unless the SALE items are decent.

Going to have to echo the other comments regarding Resistance: Burning Skies, and the missed out NicoDouga software for the Vita in Europe. I was prepared to be more frustrated about the Gravity Rush demo coming out on Friday for the United Kingdom, however thankfully that has been rectified.

The Vita is a hugely impressive device in terms of technological specifications, however once again we are being shafted due to region location. I own every Resistance game for PS3, and whilst I don’t care too much about the recent mixed scores the Vita title is receiving, the mark up price for the digital version compared to the US, and the lack of a demo even though one is available is unacceptable. The Amazon.co.uk price for the title has been bumped up to £45 as a result, who’s going to buy that?!

I don’t understand, do you want to generate more sales of this device, or are you more interested in annoying existing owners? This is becoming more rocky than the launch of the PS3, there appears...

Going to have to echo the other comments regarding Resistance: Burning Skies, and the missed out NicoDouga software for the Vita in Europe. I was prepared to be more frustrated about the Gravity Rush demo coming out on Friday for the United Kingdom, however thankfully that has been rectified.

The Vita is a hugely impressive device in terms of technological specifications, however once again we are being shafted due to region location. I own every Resistance game for PS3, and whilst I don’t care too much about the recent mixed scores the Vita title is receiving, the mark up price for the digital version compared to the US, and the lack of a demo even though one is available is unacceptable. The Amazon.co.uk price for the title has been bumped up to £45 as a result, who’s going to buy that?!

I don’t understand, do you want to generate more sales of this device, or are you more interested in annoying existing owners? This is becoming more rocky than the launch of the PS3, there appears to be disappointment after disappointment. Please SCEE, match what other regions can do on time. I know the longer requirements of Q&A pay a factor, but a difference in scheduling can make the difference between better or worse sales.

I too am getting a little more than fed up waiting for Pinbalk Arcade.Myself and a few mates have all been looking forward to it for ages, and check every Wednesday to see if it’s available here yet.

One of my mates has already given up and got for his iPhone instead.I downloaded the special free offer this month on my iPad and am considering just buying more tables for that and forgetting about the PSN version. Primarily I was looking forward to playing this on my Vita, but frankly, after feeling like I’m being messed about by SCEE, maybe I would be better off getting the iPad version, and enjoy it on the bigger screen… I’ve no idea how much extra tables will cost on PSN, maybe these will work out cheaper on iOS too?

If there could just be some official post suggesting a release date, and why on Earth it’s taking so long, it would help.

As for Resistance BS, I’d assumed from the start that the digital price would be ridiculous, so preordered the physical version ages ago at <£3...

I too am getting a little more than fed up waiting for Pinbalk Arcade.Myself and a few mates have all been looking forward to it for ages, and check every Wednesday to see if it’s available here yet.

One of my mates has already given up and got for his iPhone instead.I downloaded the special free offer this month on my iPad and am considering just buying more tables for that and forgetting about the PSN version. Primarily I was looking forward to playing this on my Vita, but frankly, after feeling like I’m being messed about by SCEE, maybe I would be better off getting the iPad version, and enjoy it on the bigger screen… I’ve no idea how much extra tables will cost on PSN, maybe these will work out cheaper on iOS too?

If there could just be some official post suggesting a release date, and why on Earth it’s taking so long, it would help.

As for Resistance BS, I’d assumed from the start that the digital price would be ridiculous, so preordered the physical version ages ago at <£30. Shame though, I'd always rather have digital versions of games, but they really should be cheaper than physical, not £10 more!

Agree with 100. Australia and New Zealand are getting RIPPED OFF! I’m so glad I buy all my games from the US PSN store, their Ultimate Edition sale is awesome, made a big purchase from there. I’d never expect to see a sale like that on any European PSN store, in fact I haven’t in years.

@jawadwhat year can we expect these ps1 classic some have been on U.S store for about 5 years alrdyCastlevania: Symphony of the Night Konami TYO July 19, 2007Spyro the Dragon Insomniac October 25, 2007R-Types Irem April 24, 2008Castlevania Chronicles Konami TYO December 18, 2008Suikoden Konami December 23, 2008R-Type Delta Irem May 7, 2009Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! Insomniac May 7, 2009Spyro: Year of the Dragon Insomniac May 14, 2009Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Red Storm Entertainment May 21, 2009Medal of Honor Dreamworks Interactive June 2, 2009Medal of Honor: Underground Dreamworks Interactive June 11, 2009Mobile Light Force Psikyo June 25, 2009Dead in the Water ASC Games August 13, 2009Bloody Roar EightingRaizing August 20, 2009Nuclear Strike Electronic Arts October 1, 2009Dino Crisis Capcom November 25, 2009Bomberman Party Edition Metro December 10, 2009

@jawadwhat year can we expect these ps1 classic some have been on U.S store for about 5 years alrdyCastlevania: Symphony of the Night Konami TYO July 19, 2007Spyro the Dragon Insomniac October 25, 2007R-Types Irem April 24, 2008Castlevania Chronicles Konami TYO December 18, 2008Suikoden Konami December 23, 2008R-Type Delta Irem May 7, 2009Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! Insomniac May 7, 2009Spyro: Year of the Dragon Insomniac May 14, 2009Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Red Storm Entertainment May 21, 2009Medal of Honor Dreamworks Interactive June 2, 2009Medal of Honor: Underground Dreamworks Interactive June 11, 2009Mobile Light Force Psikyo June 25, 2009Dead in the Water ASC Games August 13, 2009Bloody Roar EightingRaizing August 20, 2009Nuclear Strike Electronic Arts October 1, 2009Dino Crisis Capcom November 25, 2009Bomberman Party Edition Metro December 10, 2009

STILL no Pinball Arcade Classics for the Vita and heck, still no t@g app when advertised last time and other free apps for the Vita? Seriously Sony I’m and also we getting sick and tired of this.

No true PS1 classics, no true PS2 classics, overpriced games while US gets it cheap and too many delays for Europe. One day Xbox 360 could become the best selling console of all time if Sony Europe doesn’t do their job right. PS3 did strong in Europe and might not be soon if this keeps up. Way to go Sony for screwing up Europe…AGAIN!

Like others, I’m fed up waiting for a PS Plus update, and I am more than a little alarmed to hear that the service is being changed.

Having said that, if the rumoured new levels of subscription make it seem like a worse deal, then I suppose my only reason for checking this blog will evaporate along with my subscription… and that isn’t actually a bad thing.

I hate having to come here for subscription related updates which really should be delivered via the console itself.

Why is Resistance $36 on US store and £40 here, $36 is about £23. So we getting charge double the US rice almost. THen for some reason the file size in EU is significantly bigger and Vita memory card prices are a joke for the little space you get on them.

Do you wonder why the Vita is tanking at retail? People are not mugs, you try to treat us like mugs though.

Im getting tired of this PSVita crap. First they throw us a bunch of ports to the console to make us happy until after E3. Second, the first FPS exclusive to the Vita comes out and looks like crap, from what ive seen from the reviews. Third, you wont even let us try it for ourselves (Except for the US, because they are so special) and you raise the price and memory for us! How awesome!

I will be buying gravity rush because they do deserve it, but once I conclude that the only games coming out this year are LBP, COD and ports, ill be selling my vita.

actually people aren’t wrong by questioning Jawad in regards to the offers this week – he infers information on the offers (re specific items on sale) will be able in Andy’s post – they weren’t – what Jawad should have stated is to visit the playstation store to see what offers are available

also wanting to state people need to google embargo – embargo does not infer or mean kept secret – it references the availability (the prohibition of goods (such as an arms embargo) therefore by not stating what will be on offer – if the term embargo is too be applicable means that offers will vary by store- meaning not all areas in Europe will see the same offers

so by refusing to state on a blog people use in relation to information on playstation goods – is a means to prohibit any customer backlash in regards to availability of items within the same PAL region…so by stating people need to google embargo I think someone needs to first understand what embargo actually means – being secretive is...

actually people aren’t wrong by questioning Jawad in regards to the offers this week – he infers information on the offers (re specific items on sale) will be able in Andy’s post – they weren’t – what Jawad should have stated is to visit the playstation store to see what offers are available

also wanting to state people need to google embargo – embargo does not infer or mean kept secret – it references the availability (the prohibition of goods (such as an arms embargo) therefore by not stating what will be on offer – if the term embargo is too be applicable means that offers will vary by store- meaning not all areas in Europe will see the same offers

so by refusing to state on a blog people use in relation to information on playstation goods – is a means to prohibit any customer backlash in regards to availability of items within the same PAL region…so by stating people need to google embargo I think someone needs to first understand what embargo actually means – being secretive is not an embargo

Reason why is the british tax is at 20% and prices are more expensive in uk than america even if resistnace burning skies was only £30 or £35 on the store it still will be more expensive, but we will say we have saved £5 or so.

Could someone on the PSN team please address the issue of why games are actually priced higher in the digital store than hard copies (This week’s offenders are Resistance: Burning Skies & Prototype)? This really comes across as greedy and perhaps if the reasoning behind your business conduct was explained clearly then I would feel less ripped off every week. When the PSN started to release fully fledged disc games we were promised that prices would be cheaper. This has not come to fruition.

I’m glad that I managed to resist buying the Vita. The current criticism, especially regarding the stores and regional disadvantages, is exactly what I feared to see. If Sony won’t get any smarter, don’t be surprised if Playstation 4 will fail in Europe.

is there anyone home……erm, was going to ask why,why and why Again, But reading the comments i feel i couldn’t possibly add or contribute any more to whats being asked, explained and rated as ‘disgusting’, .. by most everyone who has any intelligence and sense of justice/fair-play atleast.

One question i would like to ask though, with the INFAMOUS2 game now costing about 3quid in US.. messin, i ‘think’ it’ll work out around £12(ish), (for the plus subbers), will/can us mere UK/EU folk expect a more realistic price anytime soon, as atm it’s £49.99, i would be hoping for it to ‘maybe’ be in this secret E3 sale, But IF it is i will probably just end up disappointed (Again), i mean we, well you.. (scee) are never going to come close to matching ‘those’ kind of deals. just wish there was a (official) sceuk, as most prob it would be better than the present system. (for us brits, i mean).

It’s got to be said time and time again, pricing is just way to high on full DD games. These games can found way cheaper on disc format at various online retailers. You’re making the digital download market seem like a joke in comparison. £50 is not what people usually pay for games.

I join all the posts about Pinball Arcade above. Sony, please provide the official statement from your submission review team. It’s not like you have a busy schedule for Vita releases, but the lack of good games. Delaying it for almost 2 months is not acceptable.

If you have the reasons for such a delay, please explain it to your customers, don’t remain silent for weeks.

All we need is something like “submission review is in progress and the game is expected to be available in N weeks”.

I hope the level of bureaucracy inside Sony is not too high to deliver us this “N” number.

Can’t be bothered to explain the whole process, as it can be quite complex.

Andy has been told not to post any information & I never said it means secretive, I stated that his hands are tied. If an Embargo has been placed, then there’s nothing he can do, as he’s covering himself from futher backlash.

I work in the legal sector & we have Emabrgoes placed from time to time, & they can be quite serious when breached!

Hello Jawad… First off i don’t intend on being sarcastic, but it probably will sound that way.Am i correct in remembering that when you were given this weekly ‘heads-up’ blog that Andy kinda introduced you as someone that would, or was going to be ‘mainly’ concentrating your workload ‘around’ this erm,.. responsibility, ie no ‘sorry, but had important meeting, or just so busy with other duties, oh and the best one, (true as well), this (answering heads-up stuff) isn’t part of my job description, i do this without pay.. ‘ that we used to see very often. As IF i am remembering that correctly, i am kinda curious why you seem to delay answering ‘any’ comments for a few hours.. ie 2hrs and 40min today, which has been the rule lately… i mean Why ?.. and what are you doing while waiting for the set time to elapse… i think you answer many comments, but not the ‘touchy’ ones (sadly), But to me it looks (the blog) as bad as it’s been for last few years still.. (imo, of course).

I do actually have other duties to tend to but I do tend to you guys as quick and as much as I can along with my other duties.

The touchy issues are just that, touchy. The time may not be right to reveal certain information so I have to pass up responding more often than not until the time is right.

Where I can answer, I will. Where something requires extra info, I’ll chase it. Right now that’s more difficult with E3 and generally getting in touch with certain people can be easier or harder as they too have other things to tend to.

I hope that answers some thing. I won’t say what I do every minute though because that’s too creepy, heh.

So sony/sce allow the US to have a 4th July sale, yes ?.. and like most things US it’s probably massive.. Well why isn’t sony/sce allowing this for ‘other’ regions ?.. obviously i am refering to the Queens Diamond Jubilee atm, But thats just going to be a one off, till whatever the next one is called happens.. but Every country has a special 4th July kinda event, Yet i can’t ever recall anything ever being done for others, But am ‘allmost’ certain the US DO get the (pardon the pun) ROYAL treatment for their big national day, wth is Really going on with all this ‘special treatment’ ?.. also it’s all well and good just blaming everything on sce.. But surely some blame lies at ‘our’ reps to sce for the (obvious) lack of commitment on our behalf..

Andy deals with special offers and promotions. Where time allows (as well as other stuff) then yeah, we’re happy to do offers for certain periods and/or events. In fact, you may see things like this more often in the not so distant future.

I know what an embargo is – my mother is a lawyer (albeit in the US)so I have some understanding of law and how it works

the point I made in my original post – when I quoted Jawad – was the heads up post made it appear that information about what was on special offer (re details) other than a vague notion of what will be on sale – there is a difference

perhaps semantics is too complex to explain here is a link to provide greater understanding

embargo deals with trade re prohibition or the respecting the trading rights of “whatever” country – the only way embargo is even applicable is if the offers are different by each country (as in their is an embargo on providing Germany will violent games or NIS supplying dlc to Scandinavian countries as well as Poland)

confidentiality would provide a more accurate description of Andy’s inability to post details